Sentences with phrase «control over the brain»

Having such control over the brain could one day provide a non-invasive treatment for conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, depression and epilepsy.

Lower the bar when it comes to your expectations of them, and understand that they don't have full control over their brains.

Not exact matches

Confusingly, there is some crossing of nerves between the body and the brain, which means it's actually the left side of the brain that has more control over the right side of the body and vice versa.

«Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence,» said Musk according to a CNBC report, adding that «some high bandwidth interface to the brain will be something that helps achieve a symbiosis between human and machine intelligence and maybe solves the control problem and the usefulness problem.»

It usually gets disabled early in life by superstionists who crave control over said brain, but still objective observation exists.

Emotions are a product of brain chemistry that we don't have a lot of control over.

I believe that its important to see inner wisdom and the council of friends and wise and knowledgeable people... but God, if he / she exists created us — right... oh yes w / brains... we should be honoring that by using them... I can imagine if God exists every day he is saying to himself / herself «why do people keep asking me for things I have not control over, or really could care less about (people are asking for a new shinny house to replace their perfectly fine house while millions are homeless around the world, hungry, sick, etc.)... why are they not using the gifts and skills they have».

If the human stream of occasions of dominating awareness is to be influenced by many regions of the brain at once, and is in turn to exercise control over many such regions, it must be directly in touch (both spatially and temporally) with large portions of the brain.

Anybody with a working brain cell knows that a president has little if any control over the economy.

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So does Usain Bolt, He fails to get the ball under control and is forever falling over, dreadful at tracking back and as Alan Hanson mentioned many moons ago... «he crosses when he should shoot, poor football brain»... And finally he shoots by side footing the ball.

«The main reason for injures in football is accumulation of fatigue because when you accumulate fatigue over time your brain has less control over your body and your coordination goes down and then you are vulnerable to injuries.

Once we can talk about feelings, the feelings which are on the non-verbal side of the brain connect to the words on the other side of the brain and we have so much control and therefore, we have control over our behavior.

The part of the brain responsible for exerting control over the emotional, impulsive part is not well developed in children under three.

With such an undeveloped little brain, they are about as close to their genes as any human will ever get and have little control over their behavior.

Premature birth or being part of a multiple birth increases the likelihood that a baby's brain hasn't matured completely, so he or she has less control over such automatic processes as breathing and heart rate.

Bacteria living in the human gut have strange influence over mood, depression and more, but it has been unclear exactly how belly - dwelling bacteria exercise remote control of the brain (SN: 4/2/16, p. 23).

Over the past five years, researchers observed abnormal brain activity in the SHANK3 knockout mice when compared to controls.

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

After the researchers kept adult volunteers awake for about 35 hours, they found with MRI scans that sleep deprivation impairs the «rational» prefrontal cortex's control over the amygdala, the brain's emotion center.

Since the cerebellum pulls together disparate sources of information from all over the brain and uses it to control motor functions such as hand gestures and walking, it may simply have had to grow once the rest of the ape brain ballooned.

The electrode - embedded sheets were placed over the parts of the brain that control arm and hand movement.

On its face (or hand), it's a prime example of how little control our conscious brains seem to have over unwanted habits.

«The idea that control of brain wiring is located in these RNA molecules that are constantly being dynamically turned over is something that we didn't anticipate,» Dr. Jaffrey adds.

When patients are fitted with a robotic prosthetic limb, they gain control over their prosthesis with the help of a communication pathway provided by a brain - computer interface, or BCI, implanted in the brain.

A long - standing theory is that people with TS gain control over their tics by developing self - regulating techniques to compensate, which in turn lead to a physical're - wiring» within the neural pathways of the brain.

Stern and her colleagues speculate that women who show these brain changes may be practicing a sort of mind over mood control of their PMS behavioral symptoms.

«There have been a series of discoveries over the last five years showing that proteins that control RNA degradation are very important for brain development and, when they are mutated, you can have spasticity or other movement disorders,» Dr. Colak says.

To test how the brain exercises this inhibitory control over behavior, the authors trained rats to press a lever to obtain sugar pellets.

The researchers discovered that the ability to stop depended on the activity of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), a region of the brain implicated in executive control over behavior.

Through analysis of high - resolution anatomical magnetic resonance imaging of brain volumes, taken three times over the two - year study period, the researchers were able to determine that individuals with MCI or Alzheimer's showed greater losses in gray matter volume in both the basal forebrain and temporal lobe, compared with cognitively normal controls.

To test that possibility, he says, scientists could set up additional controlled experiments that measure how physiology and brain activity varies over the 29.5 - day lunar cycle.

Whether it is playing a piano sonata or acing a tennis serve, the brain needs to orchestrate precise, coordinated control over the body's many muscles.

«If we can understand how the brain stops or prevents an action, we may gain ability to enhance that stopping process to afford individuals more control over their choices.»

«Parasite manipulators have something to teach us about how brains work,» says Adamo, as they are able to exert fine - grained control over their hosts» brains in ways that human neurobiologists can only dream of.

For the first month or so of life, McKenna explains, the breathing process is controlled exclusively by the brain stem, with the infant having no control over vocalizing.

We are also dedicated not only to enabling control over computers or robotic assistive devices, but — for people with spinal cord injury or stroke — working toward the goal of reconnecting brain to limb, allowing the powerful intracortical signals to activate fully implanted functional electrical stimulation devices, and re-enabling intuitive movement of one's own arm and hand.»

But over the course of four decades, and through dozens of experiments, Edgerton and his colleagues have shown that the spinal cord is smart in much the same way the brain is smart: It can, on its own, detect sensory information and send out signals that control the way we move.

The control group without MAb administration showed PD pathology in multiple brain areas over time, while the mice treated with Syn303 showed significantly reduced pathology in the same areas.

Scientists know that our memories are stored in specific areas of the brain, but there has been some debate over whether a single brain region can store different memories that control opposing behavior.

Since the pulses of light exert highly precise control over the neurons, it opens the possibility of very selective studies of firing patterns in brain regions of interest.

«The idea is that if you can couple those motor signals that are associated with moving the same - sided limb with the actual movements of the hand, new connections will be made in your brain that allow the uninjured areas of your brain to take over control of the paralyzed hand,» Leuthardt said.

By testing cycling time to task failure (TTF) in a group of 12 active participants in a placebo controlled study, Dr Mauger discovered that stimulating the brain by passing a mild electrical current (transcranial direct current stimulation or tDCS) over the scalp to stimulate it increased the activity of the area associated with muscle contraction.

Neurofeedback is a way of training the brain by allowing an individual to view some type of external indicator of brain activity and attempt to exert control over it.

He also notes that we have more control over the contexts we're in than we tend to think we do, which means that it's very possible to end up in an environment that favors the way our brains work.

To Francis Heylighen, who studies consciousness and artificial intelligence at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) in Belgium, consciousness is merely a system of mechanisms for making information processing more efficient by adding a level of control over which of the brain's processes get the most resources.

The robot's journey was an experiment in shared control, a type of brain - machine interface that merges conscious thought and algorithms to give disabled patients finer mental control over devices that help them communicate or retrieve objects.

THE brain has such fine control over the muscles used to speak that every sound produces a different pattern of neural activity.

The study showed that these brain abnormalities contribute in part to difficulty with inhibitory control — the ability to regulate self - control over temptations and impulsive behavior — which is related to mental health problems such as addictive behavior and attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder.

«Nicotine withdrawal weakens brain connections tied to self - control over cigarette cravings.»